Notes / Commercial Description:
Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA will challenge your senses and your palate. As the vibrant aroma rushes out of your glass you will notice the blend of piney and tropical fruit notes. At first sip, this big beer starts with a powerful hop bitterness up front and an aggressive hop flavor and character throughout.

Leviathan Imperial IPA is brewed with tons of pale malt and just enough caramel malt to provide a sweet malt body to balance the hop intensity. We used copious amounts of a variety of hops including Chinook, Centennial, Simcoe, and Amarillo at various points during the boil to create a complex hop flavor and clean lingering bitter finish. We then fermented the beer with Harpoon’s own versatile proprietary yeast. Finally, we dry hopped at a rate of over 1 lb a barrel to produce this beer’s massive aroma.

Deep amber, great clarity, and a thick, long-lasting white head. Big aroma filled with pine and caramel malt. Harpoon's description says tropical fruit, but I didn't get any of that in the aroma or flavor. This is a sharp, sweet, and spicy Imperial IPA. The alcohol is noticeable but not overpowering. Full bodied with a thick, sticky mouthfeel. A big, hop forward beer bursting with pine that has a strong caramel malt base to back it up.

Good DIPA. Pours the color of a penny, small white head, no lacing. Aroma is malty, alcoholic and candied fruits. Taste is of tropical hops and crystal malts. Feel is almost perfect. Overall, besides the aroma, an above average DIPA.

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a small snifter.
A - Surprising clarity, gentle carbonation feeds lazily a thin cap. The copper colored body is delightful.
S - Dried tropical fruits, a fusel alcohol snap in the nose.
T - Just of the nose, warm alcohol, very nice fruit notes, apricot, dried lemon, sweet malts support it all.
M - Viscous, a big body with full palate coating, the carbonation has no chance to clean up.
O - A bold offering, with hops galore. The pine notes meld with tropics, A very nice IIPA.

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. The appearance is a cloudy dark gold color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is full of hops and pine. The taste is a close match to the aroma. A really good IPA.

From the bottle, it pours a clear slightly coppery amber with a small head, quickly fading to a ring. The nose detects malt and hops. The mouth is assaulted by the hops, followed by the malt and the alcohol. Dangerously easy to drink.

Taste - Follows the nose. Floral hops and candied citrus with a touch of pine and spice. Bread with lesser caramel malt backbone. Finishes with pith bitterness and a bit of astringency from the alcohol.

Nice light copper color. Minimal head, even after a fairly aggressive pour. Big, robust tropical aroma: my favorite part of this beer. Tastewise, this is one dimensional to me, even though it was balanced well by the sweeter malts. There is some grapefruit, citrus, and tropical fruit flavors, but its hard for them to shine through all the hoppiness. You can taste the booze (which at 10% abv is not surprising), but I am not a fan of that in my beers. Nice, creamy mouthfeel with ideal carbonation. Personally, would take Harpoon's standard issue IPA over this any day. Not bad, just not my thing.

Not for me... Looks and smells like an IPA. The hop smash you get up front is too much. Malty finish is there but hard to get from all the bitterness. very high alcohol and a beer you have to sip slowly.

Not much to think when first sipped but hold in your mouth for a little and you really start to pull out the flavor. Distinct after taste and one of the heavier beers. Great balance considering the alcohol content (about 8%).

Starts with a dark golden pour with a brownish tint. The smell is that of chocolate, hops and barley, with a taste that starts bitter and finishes sweet. This beer drinks very smooth, especially for one with a 10 percent alcohol content. Not incredibly bitter for an imperial IPA, but certainly good.

12 oz bottle that I drank straight from the bottle at a Christmas party, IPA sampler picked up from wholesale club. This was one very impressive Imperial IPA, very hop forward which I love, with citrusy, bitter "dankness". I could drink a lot more of these. Very smooth for the abv as well.

I absolutely loved this beer and put it in my top 5. Maybe I was getting burned out from the bitterness of my recent IPA/DIPA run but this one totally and pleasantly surprised me. Sweet and creamy in aroma and taste, the boozy non-bitter close is what sealed the deal for me. Big win!

Picked this up on my East Coast beer run this summer.
A - Pours a clear dark amber orange , nice head, some thick lacing on the sides. Classic DIPA look.
S - Strong aroma of malt and hop resins. Love it.
T - Resiny, piney, bitter, with citrus hints throughout.
M - Wonderfully sticky. This is what I expect from a DIPA.
O - As you can tell, I really like this beer. This is what I expect from a DIPA. Fantastic.
*This beer reminded me of 3 Floyds Dreadnaught; I just check and I rated them the same.

From a 12 oz bottle into a glass. Best before the end of November stamped on the neck, consumed yesterday. Pours amber color, clear, with a fluffy head. Deep rich aroma of malts with some pine hops swirling around. Flavor starts very sweet, then you get the dark fruits and raisin. Back end has the bitterness with the pine and leafy hops and a touch of spice. No alcohol burn but the body is very heavy, a sipping beer. Overall it is a winter DIPA, but simply too heavy with not enough hops. Disappointed on this one.

Absolutely delicious over the top double IPA. Wonderful citrus overtones, super hoppy but not acrid. Feels great in the mouth. Small amount of fine foam that clings to the glass. Beautiful amber color.

Really liked the smell - malty, resiny and just a hint of tropical fruit. You can smell the alcohol and definitely taste it too, especially on the aftertaste. I liked the subtle caramel flavor. Pretty fresh, well-balanced beer. Just a little boozy to me.

Great beer! Its complex with different flavors that do seem to work together. The amount of malt does take away from it being this crazy hardcore IPA but nevertheless it really is. Do not drink more than (2) at one sitting.

12oz bottle poured into Spiegelau IPA glass. Pours a fairly clear orange amber color. Foamy three fingers of head with resilient blotchy lacing. Very distinct sweet scent. A sense of the high ABV is present in the smell. Very flat and relatively thick feel. The caramel malt is present throughout the taste. Piney hop bitterness at end. I like it but am not as high on it as most appear to be. (8.5)

This is alright. I don't think they did as good a job of hiding the alcohol % like, say, Hopslam. That's a real shame. The flavors are there (pine, citrus, etc) I just wish it was a LITTLE bit more there.

Has the look of a mixed fruit juice. Smells of dark fruit and candy. Taste much like sweet fruit, such as pineapple, peach, apricot, and orange. Sweet and alcoholic. Slight bitterness in the finish. I am not the biggest fan of double ipa's with such a sweet taste, like this and 90 minute. I am much more partial to west coast styles like ruination and rampant.

I think age helped. I found this bottle and didn't notice the best by date until I opened, dated 9-23-2012. The hops were subdued and the alcohol mellowed. Tasted fairly smooth, not a lot of nose left but still quite a good head and carbonation.